I have seen a graph of budget wakeboats kickin around on these forums, if you have it please post or the link to it. Thanks. Or if you know any other inexpensive boats that throw a good wake feel free to post that aswell.

The boat will always end up costing you more than you want to spend, plan for that!

If are just looking for the cheapest way to go wakeboarding, join someone's crew who already has a boat! They will most likely be very happy to have someone in their crew who knows about the expenses of boat ownership and you won't have to ruin the fun of wakeboarding by spending more than you can afford on the boat....

If you just want a boat, and can afford it, then go for it!!

That chart is missing one of the best budget wakeboarding boats out there!!! The SANGER V210!!!

Erik has stated many times when posting that chart that it's not the "complete" or "definitive" list, it's simply the most popular and easily attainable boats in any region. Even he has said there are many boats that would make decent-good wakeboats not included simply because they are not available country-wide, company is no longer, or they just weren't popular models in their day making them harder to come by.

It is definitely time to update that chart. Funny thing is that the prices remain quite relevant. So do the boats. Certain Maristars need to get on there, so does the Excel and Barefoot Nautique, as well as the Sanger model that gets mentioned often. One thing that has changed though is the fact that I mention 60k as the amount one is expected to spend on the highest-end wake boats and my aim with the chart was to cut that number in half and still put people in boats that will make most people extremely happy. That number approaches 90k on some boats now. I am going to keep the chart's limit to 30k because I still believe this is the amount normal people are willing to spend. Particularly if the boat is only used seasonally.

I am still a moderator on Wakeboarder.com, and a staff member there. Despite personal differences with one of the other moderators on Wakeboarder.com, the owner of Wakeboarder.com is a great guy and has always been very good to me and continues to be. But know what? David Williams of this Web site has also been good to me, and I link here from The Wakeboard Report - and vice versa.

I am a member here and I like both communities. Very different but also very similar. Many of the same people are on both sites - as many of us already know.